Every so often someone gets in touch with us to say they’ve found an ancestor in the project database. Despite the sad nature of the…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…
The UK is currently undergoing a very warm spell, with today, 25 July, looking like it’s going to be the hottest day of the year…
17 October is National Burns Awareness Day, organised by the British Burn Association, a charity set up in 1968 to educate and encourage research into…
In this post we’re pleased to feature another guest contributor, Nick Planas. Nick contacted our project earlier in the year, offering details of an accident…